There are some truly beautifully executed Easter Egg pictures floating around Pinterest and Instagram featuring eggs with gold accents. This particular DIY took a little bit of time to find a gold that actually sticks to the eggs and appears gold, and not green, or see-through.
Click below to see the magic!
How to create your very own gold-dipped or decorated eggs.
1.) Hard-boil or blow out your eggs
2.) Dye your eggs any color you like. I suggest sticking to an analogous or monochromatic color scheme, and accenting them with the gold. Ombre eggs work well for this.
3.) Use an appropriate gold paint-pen to decorate the eggs to your desire. Pro Tip: gold sharpies do not work. They don’t look gold. My normal “go-to” Martha Stewart Craft paint also wasn’t stellar- it was too transparent. I tried a couple of different types of gold “paint pens” – this was my favorite one that was able to paint on top of the egg without smudging the dye or loosing the gold quality of the paint:
Next, work on your presentation and how you wish to display the eggs! You will note that my eggs are a little bit speckled… I attribute this to putting the eggs to dye before the tablet was done dissolving (I had an overeager five year old helping me that did not wish to wait!).
Here are a few of my favorite inspiration photographs:
from Better Homes and Gardens
from girl. Inspired.
from fabulous k
Check out how to dye ombre eggs here!
Check out how to use the color wheel here!
Want some more DIY projects? Look for the 12 Days of DIY.